Phil Ball: 'To see ourselves as others see us'

7:22 PM,
Dec. 13, 2013

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Phil Ball

Scotland is famous for three things, and not necessarily in order of importance: Scotch whiskey, the poet Bobbie Burns, and golf.

Old Burns said (and I change his words from Scottish dialect to standard English), "Oh, would some spirit give us the gift to see ourselves as others see us." I mention this because a former friend recently attacked me because he said that the photo accompanying my columns in The Star Press no longer bore any resemblance to my present face. I believe that he added that my current real physiognomy was that of a very old man (almost 95), with a sour and confused attitude.